US CONGRESS
DFLer Graves seeks rematch with Minnesota's Bachmann 
The Democrat who narrowly lost to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann last year is seeking a rematch. Businessman Jim Graves will run again for Congress in Minnesota's 6th District.
By Associated Press , April 11, 2013
Obama urges Congress to head off spending cuts
President Barack Obama says a little compromise is all Congress needs to turn off automatic, across-the-board budget cuts set to kick in a week from now.
By Associated Press , February 23, 2013
Obama, top lawmakers meet over fiscal cliff
Congressional leaders have arrived at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama in an eleventh-hour effort to avert a fiscal cliff of across-the-board tax increases and steep spending cuts.
By David Espo and Jim Kuhnhenn , December 28, 2012
Hoeven gets seat on Keystone pipeline conference committee
Sen. John Hoeven was named today to the joint U.S. Senate-House Transportation conference committee, which gives him a seat at the table to press for his Keystone XL pipeline bill and another Hoeven measure involving the recycling of coal ash.
By Herald Staff Report , April 24, 2012
Congress OKs 90-day extension of road funding
Congress approved a 90-day extension of federal funding for transportation projects Thursday, preventing potential delays in road construction and repair projects throughout North Dakota and the nation.
By Kevin Bonham , March 30, 2012
Obama calls for end of transportation showdown
President Barack Obama wants Congress to end a showdown that threatens to cut off federal highway and transit aid to states just as the spring construction season starts.
By Steve Peoples , March 24, 2012
Obama to Congress: Kill oil industry's tax breaks
Pump prices on his mind, President Barack Obama says Congress should kill tax breaks for the oil and gas industry and help develop alternative sources of energy.
By Ken Thomas , March 17, 2012
Obama, Congress leaders meet, seeking cooperation on jobs
After quarreling for months, President Barack Obama and the top two Republicans in Congress expressed optimism Wednesday about finding a common jobs and energy agenda, prodded by political reality to show results in an election year.
By Jim Kuhnhenn , February 29, 2012
Progress in talks on payroll tax, jobless benefits
House-Senate talks on renewing a payroll tax cut that delivers about $20 a week to the average worker yielded a tentative agreement Tuesday, with lawmakers hopeful of unveiling the pact Wednesday and sending the measure to President Barack Obama as early as this week.
By Andrew Taylor , February 14, 2012
Critics say Obama's budget spending cuts will damage economic growth, push more Americans into poverty
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress Tuesday that the president's new $3.8 trillion spending plan would impose new taxes on only 2 percent of the nation's wealthiest families and the alternative would be to seek more painful cuts in other government programs such as defense, Social Security and Medicare.
By Martin Crutsinger , February 14, 2012
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Deadline nears, Obama wants payroll tax cut action
President Barack Obama is pressuring Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for the rest of the year as another deadline nears for Congress to act or see taxes go up for millions of working people.
By Associated Press , February 11, 2012
GOP-led Congress vows to reverse Obama's birth control policy
Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals provide employees with free contraceptives as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."
By Donna Cassata , February 08, 2012
Obama to urge lawmakers to revisit $1.2 trillion in cuts
In its budget proposal next month, the Obama administration will urge lawmakers to revisit the failed attempt by a congressional supercommittee to cut the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion, the White House says.
By Andrew Taylor , January 20, 2012
In weekly address, Obama challenges Congress, private sector to bring jobs back from overseas
President Barack Obama is promoting his efforts to make government more efficient and to persuade companies to bring jobs back to the U.S. from overseas. He rolled out those election-year ideas this past week and used his radio and Internet address Saturday to urge Congress and the private sector to get on board.
By Erica Werner , January 14, 2012
2012 begins with Obama, Congress locked in oil pipeline dispute
President Barack Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will force the White House to make a politically risky choice between two key Democratic constituencies. Some unions say the Keystone XL pipeline would create thousands of jobs. Environmentalists fear it could lead to an oil spill disaster.
By Matthew Daly , January 02, 2012
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